Hi SNB Community,
I used to be tech-savy back in the days and have no become part of a clueless Mac-using crowd that does not want to fuss around with technology. All the household is using OSX/iOS devices.
Why an NAS?
The space on my MacbookAir is filling up rapidly and I am no longer happy with my 1xHDD home / 1xHDD offsite backup solution. I need a new solution that allows me to
My Requirements (The What)
Additionally I am looking for HDDs with:
How I plan to do it
I currently plan to start with a smaller 2-bay RAID 1 NAS and later add a 4/5/6 RAID 5 NAS as my main "at home" Backup with the 2-bay NAS serving as a "offsite" NAS-to-NAS backup. I would prefer to go with NASes that work well together and are easy to integrate in my existing ecosystem.
I'm currently looking at solutions from LACIE (for design/ease-of-use), QNAP and SYNOLOGY (technical superiority).
Which NASes would you suggest? Which HDDs would you suggest?
best regards,
NASn00by
I used to be tech-savy back in the days and have no become part of a clueless Mac-using crowd that does not want to fuss around with technology. All the household is using OSX/iOS devices.
Why an NAS?
The space on my MacbookAir is filling up rapidly and I am no longer happy with my 1xHDD home / 1xHDD offsite backup solution. I need a new solution that allows me to
- move my photos and Aperture Lirbarys as well as movies and iMovie projects to an external storage
- backup my MBA and all other MBs in the house to one location.
My Requirements (The What)
- no or barley technical knowhow required to setup and maintain
- easy "recoverability" in case of a NAS breakdown (no proprietary file systems, hot-swappable, etc.)
- simple and easy to configure NAS-to-NAS backup
- "good enough" write/read speeds for accessing and flicking through an Aperture Library stored on the NAS and enough speed to stream HD-Videos from the NAS
- silent and low power/energy-consumption
- TimeMachine Support / iSCSI Support
- Access to the file system on the NAS while not at home, eg. accessing the Aperture library stored on the NAS while on the go (VPN? dynDNS? I have no idea what the NAS/router need to make this work – I don't want to use NAS-specific apps).
Additionally I am looking for HDDs with:
- 2TB (or is it OK to get the 3TB versiions by now?)
- 5,2k spinning rate for lower noise
- 24/7 capability (I might consider enterprise grade if the price increase justifies the quality. There are dedicated NAS-HDDS like the WD-RED by now, aren't there?)
How I plan to do it
I currently plan to start with a smaller 2-bay RAID 1 NAS and later add a 4/5/6 RAID 5 NAS as my main "at home" Backup with the 2-bay NAS serving as a "offsite" NAS-to-NAS backup. I would prefer to go with NASes that work well together and are easy to integrate in my existing ecosystem.
I'm currently looking at solutions from LACIE (for design/ease-of-use), QNAP and SYNOLOGY (technical superiority).
Which NASes would you suggest? Which HDDs would you suggest?
best regards,
NASn00by
